Seth of sethsimonds.com explained why he kicked off Disqus off his blog:

3. I want solid spam filtering. Disqus has a lot of work to do to bring its filter up to Akismet’s level. I turned off “reactions” weeks ago (imported comments from FriendFeed, tweets, etc) because Disqus failed to give life only to legitimate remarks. I’m not the only one with spam issues. Disqus seems to have a lot of trouble keeping spam off their very own blog.

At first it appears Disqus is wonderful, until your blog becomes older, and some of your posts become popular. You are now officially a target for comment spammers. Here’s one example:

I posted about “Smart Bro’s HSDPA Dongle Designs for UAAP and NCAA”, and commentator posted like:

Thanks man, just what I was looking for. Worked like a charm Thanks so much…

Okay, so what’s the relevance in that? And the author link is pointing to some bogus website. By the way, I deleted the comment.

Continue Reading The Day Disqus Missed The Spam Comments.

I don’t receive and I don’t expect to receive as much comments here in this Tumblr blog. Yet, I installed a disqus commenting system just to provide an outlet to prospective visitor to voice their concerns and feedback, if any. I love disqus for the flexibility of it. Now I just wish Tumblr has its own commenting system.

With the introduction of Disqus 3, many features are expected to roll. Lately, they implemented Yahoo! account sign-in. I would like that if I were to be asked. Also they had this “reactions” feature that will list down the links to where that particular post was mentioned in various social media services (like twitter, friendfeed, digg, etc.). However, they changed to “# comments” script to include the “reactions” count, so that it’ll now read for example, “4 Comments and 3 Reactions”.

And that’s where all the problems started. It doesn’t offer options to separate the two (comments and reactions) from the script or from the backend. I hate it because it broke my design. Now I need to disable the reactions option altogether from the Disqus backend.

Now here lies another problem. For some reason or another, when editing the General Tab under the settings menu from the Disqus admin panel, the save button just simply and often times fail to popup. They didn’t even placed a permanent save button. Disqus is all bugs, bugs, and bugs!

Come on Disqus, fix it!

Are you tired already of me talking about this? Don’t worry, I’m not.

Because for one thing, I’m getting sick already with the ineffectiveness of IntenseDebate when replying by email. It’s more than an hour already but my moderation has not yet effected. I think it sucks big time.

I was just glad I started this blog/tumblog with Disqus commenting system instead. ID is a real pain in the a$$.

I wonder if there’s anyone in here that actually love and use IntenseDebate, and maybe come to the rescue. Leave your comments below.

Some people simply rely on reblogs as a way to comment to other people’s posts in Tumblr. It works like:

A friend/person posts an interesting post, another person likes to say something about it so he reblogs it with his own commentaries.

One problem that often arises is when it circles around. So basically the original poster re-reblogs his posts for the nth time. It’s like they’re using Tumblr like a forum.

Sometimes, while reading through their posts, you couldn’t tell who actually started the thread/conversation.

That’s the problem with Reblogs. Tumblr is not a forum, where you see thread of conversations across different blogs.

The problem with Tumblr is it does not have a built-in commenting system (although I read somewhere that it’s in the works). A problem that long has already have a work around.

Installing or integrating Disqus into your Tumblr blog enables you to have a commenting system at your blog. Why not use that feature so you can keep a thread in one place. Installing is not that complex at all. If you know how to read and follow instructions, I can’t see a reason why one cannot install it. All you need is a Tumblr blog and sign-up for a Disqus account.

Tumblr is great. It let’s you share anything you found on the web. Reblog it, like it, whatever.

The problem with Tumblr is it doens’t have its own commenting system. But there is a solution, though.

Introducing the Disqus Commenting System.

And it’s actually great, maybe can even be better than if ever Tumblr decides to offer commenting system in the future. It has been tested and used in various platforms, by blogs that are on top of their niche (think about Mashable.com).

But, a big but, I’m still wondering, I found some interesting tumblr blogs over here, but I think they don’t know about Disqus. C’mon guys, your tumblr blog is incomplete without a commenting system like that of Disqus.

So just simply sign up now now and implement your own commenting system in Tumblr, and I’ll gladly leave a comment, soon.

I’m sure I’ll be the first to comment. Just leave a comment below so I’ll know.

One thing about disqus is you can reply to the email sent to your inbox as a notification. The reply you made to the email is posted in the comments automatically, just like magic!